Improvement in apparatus for moving and cooling hogs



P L. GROOT. Q APPARATUS FOR MOVING AND, COOLING HOGS'.

No.180,712. Patented Aug.8,1876.

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MPETERS. PHOTO-\JTHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON, D C- UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoI PETER L. GROOT, 0F oHIoAeo, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR MOVING AND COOLING HOGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [80,712, dated August8, 1876 application filed Y July 3, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, PETER L. GROOT, ofChicago, county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Apparatus for Moving and Cooling Hogs, of whichthe following is a specification The nature of the present inventionconsists in a round bar of suitable strength, and arranged inside of acooling-house, and supported by curved pendants in such a manner thatthe hooks supporting the hogs may slide uninterrupted by the hooks fromend to end on the bar. The books for moving the hogs have central eyesfor attachiifg a lowering and drawing rope, as the whole is to behereinafter fully described and shown.

A is a bar extending into a cooling-room any desired distance, tosupport and cool hogs. The ends B B of the curved pendants are providedwith holes to receive screws for fastenin g them to hanger-beamsoverheadin the cooling-honse. The lower ends 0 are brought down such adistance below the bar A as will permit a hook, E F, to slide on the barfreely, and they are fastened to the bar by extending into holes drilledfor that purpose. That part c .of thehook shown at D slides on the barent- The rod A, supported by the curved pendants B G, as and for thepurpose set forth;

' PETER L. GROUT.

Witnesses:

O. H. ADIX,

' G. L. CHAPIN.

